I have one of those USB Hard Drive Outlets that allows me to put in a USB Massive Storage device/USB Pen/hard Drive/Rom/ or anything that goes into the regular IDE cables like a regular drive.

I just tried this Zip drive I have lying around and the computer sees the drive ( where it does the hourglsass search thingy ) but it did not install/detect the Hardware name and I do not see a drive letter.

Do I have to manual assign a letter?

Do I have to install a driver that will pick up the zip drive and install it.

Does 98 have the zip drive drivers included?

It is not a big deal I just want to try it out.

I have not tried pluging it in directly into the computer seeing how I need the space at the moment.

I think the last time I did that the computer just sat there like I had nothing installed or it never appeared in the Bios settings. Do I need to enable Zip drive support or something like that in order for it to appear?

I think it mainly depends on the TYPE of ZIP drive you have, there are mainly three types of "IDE" ZIP drives, see here:

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/zip/zip-1.html

If the drive is set as "superfloppy" most likely it won't be detected.

You should however find an unidentified device with either a question or an exclamation mark in Device Manager.

jaclaz

check device manager and diskmgmt.msc after plugging it in

-edit, didn't realise this was the 98 forum, found the link on main msfn page

Edited December 10, 200619 yr by bledd